Reply #5: Before they had their "war on drugs" to wave as a reason to pour US taxpayer's money [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

into Latin America fasist governments they simply ran with the fear of "communists," and that seemed to work o.k. with Americans still whipped up with the idea of devastating wars after WWII and the Korean War, and the U.S. right-wing's constant commie scares which finally peaked with Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt in the Senate.

"Commie-ism" finally ran out of steam as a right-wing call to arms when Reagan claimed victory in his commonly accepted "defeat" of "world communism" when the Berlin Wall was dismantled, etc.

In this article Milburn Line directs the reader to consciously think (but not research) about the publicly acknowledged "drug war" claim for involvement in Colombia while packing in the old, familiar "commie" red scare material in the same breath. A tricky, dishonest maneuver.

Once people start researching they will learn the major players in Colombia in narcotrafficking have ALWAYS been the right-wing, government-linked paramilitary war lords. The paramilitaries are also the ones identified by all the human rights groups as being resposible for the VAST majority of all the murders in Colombia.

Thank you for deciding to pursue looking into the author, Milburn Line. As we have read before, USAID does openly what the CIA used to do covertly, according to old CIA people. And to learn he was utilized by _{George W. Bush} only locks him in even more clearly.

Milburn Line's Biography
Milburn Line, Chief of Party, MSD/Colombia Milburn Line heads MSD's Human Rights Program funded by USAID. He brings extensive USAID and UN project management experience in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America in the fields of human rights and civil society strengthening. Mr. Line most recently was Chief of Party for the USAID-funded Human Rights and Reconciliation Program in Guatemala City where he helped coordinate the efforts of civil society organizations to increase public awareness and public participation in human rights initiatives. Mr. Line also served as a human rights observer and conducted field investigations of allegations of human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan army. Mr. Line worked also in Caracas, Venezuela monitoring human rights violations in marginalized urban communities, developing grassroots education programs, and promoting local and international legal advocacy for human rights protections. Mr. Line holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and is fluent in Spanish.

http://www.spoke.com/info/pEw9jUt/MilburnLine

ARRGH.

Ronald Reagan's contributions to the Guatemalan President and his military, with the huge financial backing from U.S. fundie televangelists Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson, etc. helped create a thoroughly ruthless, bloodthirsty band of ideologically directed butchers who laid waste to entire villages of Mayan Indians, to priests and ministers attempting to ACTUALLY help the poor, to human rights workers, teachers, labor union members, small farmers, and their families.

As for what Milburn Line did to busy himself in Venezuela during _Bush's time can only be imagined, considering the poor (vast majority) of Venezuela have been IGNORED, hated, dispised by the ruling oligarchs before Hugo Chavez was elected.

Thanks for the call to LOOK at what we're reading. So much depends upon it.